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FRANCIS H. RICHARDS OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, "IO ANIERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC CORPORATION, A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY;

5 scribed in etters Patent of the United States No.403,216, granted to me May 14, 1889. In the machine described in the patent' mentioned the impression mechanism, briefly stated, comprises a rotatable body or turret; means for imparting a normally continuous rotary movement to said turret; a series of impression-device carrier-shafts car ried on the rotatable body or turret near the periphery thereof, and each of which shafts has a starting-arm located in a plane, longitudinally of the shaft, differing from that of the starting arm on any other shaft; a series of sets or tiers of shaft-starters or latches so disposed relatively to the starting-arms of the several shafts that the latches of one set are protrndable into the orbit of the startingarm of one shaft and are adapted for starting the rotative movement of said shaft, and the latches of another set are likewise protrudable into the orbit of the starting-arm of another shaft and are adapted for commencing the rotative movement of said other shaft, and so on; a suitable keyboard having finger-keys for controlling the operation of the shaft-starters or latches; actuating connections between the latches and fingerkeys, so organized and connected that upon the operation of a selected finger-key the latch controlled by said key will be protrnded into the path of the starting-arm of that shaft controlled by the set of latches to which this latch belongs, and. thereby start the said shaft in rotation at th requisite point in the orbital movement thereof for ringing the lmpression device corresponding to the character of the key-actuator into proper position for making an impression;

Specification of Letters Patent Patented May '7, 1907.

Application filed July 24, 1896. Serial No- 600,377.

means for continuing the rotative movement of said shaft until the im ression is made; and means for returning t e impression-device carrier to its normal, ineffective position. By reference to said patent it will be seen that each impression-device carrier of the machine therein described has a normally continuous, orbital movement concentric to a fixed axis, and that the impression is made Without any deflection of the carrier from its normal, concentric path, the impression-device carrier having a portion of its periphery notched or cut away to form a clearancespace, between the said carrier and platen and being normally so held in position relatively to the platen that it will pass clear of the same during an ineffective orbital movement of said carrier.

One object of my present invention is to furnish a machine embodying an impressiondevice carrier supported for diversified movements, and to provide means for imparting hypocycloidal movements to the impressiondcvice thereon and. for imparting an advancsaid carrier at a predetermined point in and simultaneously with the said hypocycloidal movement, whereby the impression will he made by a combined hypocycloidal and advancing movement of the impression device.

A further object of the invention is to provide, in connection with a platen-carriage, a platen and feed mechanism, improved means whereby the platenwarriage may be automatically shifted, longinnlinally from its extreme, advanced'position to its extreme. retracted position, and whereby the platen may be automatically rotated a space distance at or near the end of the retractive trolled devices for effecting retractive movement of the platen-carriage, irrespective of the location of said carriage, intermediate its two extreme positions; and also to provide key-controlled devices for shifting the rarriage in a plane crosswise to the'plane of lts longitudinal movement.

A further object of the invention is 'to pro vide, in connection with a platen, improved ineans for cushioning the platen upon the re tractive movement thereof.

movement thereof; also to provide key-eon by the rolling action of the impression device ing and retracting impression movement to 

